| St. Juliaan Memorial (1921), a Canadian memorial to the first gas attack by the Germans in WWI. |
| Tyne Cot cemetery has 3 German Bunkers inside its walls. This bunker and one other are essentially unchanged from 1918. |
| The wall around the cemetery. At regular intervals the pillars mark the entrance to a small square chamber where the names of those whose bodies were not found.. |
| The central monument of the cemetery and a former bunker. Designed by King George of England. |
| Hooge Crater named as the shelling created craters here and eventually a lake. The church was turned into a museum of Battlefield items. |
| A German bunker upon which a British pillbox was built after 1917 when Hill 60 changed hands.. |
| The landscape of Hill 60. After the war the decision was made not to farm Hill 60 and leave it undisturbed. |
| German mustard gas cannister. Early in the war the Germans did not put gas in shells, they places it in these large spheres. |
| Tyne Cot Cemetery, the largest British Commonwealth cemetery in the world. |
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| The stone battlements about Ypres and the moat (Kastelgracht). |
| Looking through Menin Gate WWI Memorial toward Ypres. |
| Section of Menin Gate covered with the names of the Canadian War dead at Ypres whose bodies were never found. |
| The town of Ypres as seen from the outside of Menin Gate. The Belfry and Cloth Hall are visable. |
| The Grand Market of Ypres. The Cloth Hall is visible to the left. The building on the end of the Cloth Hall is the Stadhuis. |
| The Lakenhalle (Cloth Hall) and its Belfry. The locals used to toss live cats off the Belfry as they personified evil spirits. This tradition began in the 12th Century and continued until 1817. In 1930 the practice was revived as an annual event - but with stuffed toy cats. |
| Concrete dug-outs set in the canal bank at Essex Farm. These dug-outs were built for a front-line dressing station. It was here that Canadian Lt. Col. John McCrae worked on wounded soldiers and wrote "In Flanders Fields". |
| Wijtschate trenches (White Sheet) that have been restored. The man in the foreground is our Guide Lode. |
I called and arranged to go with Quasimodo Tours for a guided tour of Ypres and Ypres
Salient. The driver/guide was a fairly amusing Flemish man called Lode (Logan) who
grew up in the Ypres Countryside.
Salient. The driver/guide was a fairly amusing Flemish man called Lode (Logan) who
grew up in the Ypres Countryside.